watermelon & mint juice?

you know summer has arrived when you are craving a meal outside in the humidity that is sydney … december through march. any chance to be outside is taken by me. i’ll go out to to unsuccessfully randomly run into my crush. to get a paper. a coffee. a juice. a packet of mints. you need it, i’ll get it. anything!

luckily for me, i discovered that r would be free for dinner on friday night. which was brilliant because it allowed me to indulge in the humidity of the city with a friend.r & i like similar foods & therefore we make for a good team when it comes to ordering. we simply look over the menu, let each other know what screams out us & discuss. we compromise & order. SIMPLE.

to begin our dinner, we ordered three smaller dishes to share. the first being a r choice:- sweet yam tempura spring rolls served with sweet chilli sauce. i’ve personally never had a yam before & biting into this spring roll was exciting because the purple outer skin became orange .. magic??

being a massive lover of all things dumpling & steamed buns, i ordered the following two smaller dishes for us to share. everything i ordered was mixed which meant that we literally cut everything down the middle for a taste test.

i ordered:- mixed dumplings – pumpkin, english spinach, mushroom plus assorted steamed buns – bbq, chickpea, chinese cabbage.

the dumpling, they blew my mind. i have successfully found the dumpling i was secretly searching for. i have been on a quest to find dumplings that have the right texture in the skin & also have tasty ingredients inside. why did i not find this place sooner? i would look like a dumpling, that is why.

dinner was light & fresh, just what summer ordered. we shared salt and pepper silky tofu salad with wakami, cucumber noodle, baby leaves, mint and yuzu dressing plus bodhi vegetarian peking ‘duck’, bbq sauce, cucumber and pancakes.

we are both dying to go back for their lunch menu which is full of dumplings.